"Google's efforts to improve Internet efficiency through the development of the SPDY (pronounced 'speedy') protocol got a major boost today when the chairman of the HTTP Working Group (HTTPbis), Mark Nottingham, called for it to be included in the HTTP 2.0 standard. SPDY is a protocol that's already used to a certain degree online; formal incorporation into the next-generation standard would improve its chances of being generally adopted."

"Did you really mean SMTP when you talked about ASN.1 ?"
"Maybe you meant SNMP ?"

Sometimes I'm baffled at how I write the wrong thing sometimes. Yes I wrote an SNMP client for a legacy DOS system using pascal. And I found ASN difficult to use from such a statically structured language.

I haven't read anything indicating HTTP would become binary, but if it were to be I think a simple binary name/value container would do fairly well without much trouble.